Cuba News

Cuban Americans met in Miami on Saturday to discuss how to normalise relations with Cuba and end the five decade-long United States embargo against the communist-run island, the first such gathering in a decade in a city better known for hostility toward the communist-run island.

One panelist said Castro's reforms are moving "not slowly, but not fast enough" to meet the wishes of Cubans.

Population-wide weight loss and regain in relation to diabetes burden and cardiovascular mortality in Cuba 1980-2010: repeated cross sectional surveys and ecological comparison of secular trends Abstract Objective To evaluate the associations between population-wide loss and gain in weight with diabetes prevalence, incidence, and mortality, as well ... (more)

Venezuelan opposition legislator Maria Corina Machado has invoked a national demonstration this Sunday to protest against Cuban interference in the country.

The motion is the first successful use of the so-called European citizens' initiative , which was introduced by the Lisbon treaty and allows for 1 million EU citizens to assign the European Commission with a task, by way of their signatures.

Cuba is not your traditional Caribbean cruise destination. Because of the U.S. embargo, it's an entirely different experience that, until this year, has not been possible Tourists and residents alike visit the Cathedral Plaza in Havana.

Theater for the New City, the community cultural center that produces over thirty premieres of new American plays each year, is pleased to announce the return of acclaimed playwright Eduardo Machado with the world premiere of his new play Worship, directed by Michael Domitrovich .

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Cuba, with its tourist-dotted beaches and tangled political history, has long sustained trade partnerships with many countries.

Just three years after the Obama administration relaxed travel restrictions to Cuba, nearly every major tour company is now jockeying for the hearts and wallets of U.S. tourists.

The Castillo del Morro San Pedro de la Roca, a 17th century Spanish fortress, protects the entrance to the harbor in Santiago de Cuba, one of the stops on the new Cuba Cruise.

Among the many concerning revelations in this week's report by the U.N. Panel of Experts are details of how Cuba's Port of Mariel was used for smuggling 240 tons of weapons to North Korea, in violation of international sanctions.

A file picture taken on February 12, 2010, shows former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg speaking during an Amnesty International press conference in Berlin.

What became clear to me when I was protesting the Vietnam War and the shortage of funds for LBJ's War on Poverty was that, essentially, I was asking someone to act on my behalf, a futile exercise.

The United States military announced on Thursday that it had repatriated an Algerian detainee held for more than a decade in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison complex.

Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reported to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, nearly three weeks after agreeing to a $25 million, five-year contract.

Jean Washburn Hernandez died peacefully on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at her home in Essex Meadows in Essex, Connecticut.

Approximately 50,000 patients get some kind of infections in Cuban hospitals; 16,500 could die from that cause.

Despite the CELAC spectacle in Havana, Cuba the Castro regime's outlaw credentials were reaffirmed in a damning report from the United Nations widely reported, on its role in illegal arms smuggling to its ideological soul mate: North Korea.